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Our condolences go out to to Saul and Marilyn Mendelson and their family on the passing today of Saul’s mother, Sophie Anna Mendelson. The funeral will be held on Thursday, January 22nd, at 1:30 pm, at Stanetsky’s Chapel in Brookline, with interment in Peabody. The Mendelsons will be sitting shiva at their home (168 Pine Grove Street) through next Wednesday morning. Minyans will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday and Saturday through Tuesday evenings.

May the Divine Presence comfort them, among all the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

Rabbi Perkins will be interviewing Maya Evans, a native of Alexandria Egypt, at Temple Emanuel, on Ward Street in Newton, at 7:45 pm. This will be a part of the oral history of Jews who left Muslim lands due to persecution, as part of the Jewish Education Collaborative.

Our regular monthly Friday evening Kabbalat Shabbat service will take place this Friday, at 6:45 pm. Please join us for this brief service.

In case you haven’t noticed, the Pats don’t face up to the Cougars until next Sunday, so there will be no football at all this weekend! Whattaya gonna do to fill the time? You need an excuse to sit around and stare at a screen with family and friends while indulging in gobs of carbs. Do we have the night for you!

On Saturday evening, January 24th, from 5-8 p.m., Temple Aliyah will transfrom into a Multiplex theater! We will begin with a light dinner for everyone, followed by Havdalah. We will then break into separate “theaters” for young kids, teens, and adults, for 3 separate movies. The cost is only $5 per person and includes free drinks and of course popcorn! Great features: Family: ‘Shrek’, Teen: Double feature including ‘The Frisco Kid’ & tba, Adult: ‘Keeping the Faith’.

Check out the web site for more details and for a reservation form, or email Terri.

Our own TA Israeli Film Festival continues, following our successful November screening, with “Purple Lawns” (Deshaim S’Gulim)” on Sunday, January 25th, at 9:45 (following minyan). Join the Adult Ed and Israel Kesher committees for breakfast and movie.

Check out the plot synopsis on the web site (sounds like a serious Tel Aviv chick flick). The cost for the movie and breakfast (we’ll even throw in some leftover Saturday night popcorn if you want it that early in the morning) is $8, and reservations are requested.

Our annual Sisterhood Shabbat will take place on shabbat morning January 31. Please join us for this uplifting event, in which all aspects of the service are led by the women of our congregation.

Our special guest speaker will be Dr. Deeana Klepper.  Dr. Klepper will speak on “The Secret Life of Rashi’s Daughters: Women in Medieval Jewish Communities.”  Don’t miss this great opportunity to share in the joy of Shabbat with your sisterhood community and meet an engaging scholar and teacher of medieval Judaism. Check out all the details here.

The Men’s Club is sponsoring a breakfast on Sunday morning, February 1, featuring Marc Abraham, presenter of the IgNobel Prizes and founding editor of the Annals of Improbable Research (and previously the Annals of Irreproducible Results).

Mr. Abraham’s illustrious yet dubious achievements are hard to describe briefly, so check out all of the details on the web site.

The cost is only $6. The program begins immediately following minyan, at 9:45. All are welcome. RSVPs are preferred, but you may also just show up.

Sisterhood’s annual Purim Carnival will be held on Sunday, March 7, from 1-3 pm. We’re looking for volunteers to help with the games and serve food. Please call Corine Milgram at 781 433-0721 or email Laurie Hersh if you could spare an hour.

The Men’s Club will sponsor its annual Blood Drive at the Temple on Sunday, March 14, from 9 am to noon. Contact Bob Rosemark  at brosemark@comcast.net for more details or if you can volunteer.

Pre-schoolers and their parents are invited to a special Tu Bishvat party on Sunday, February 8, at 10:30 a.m. at Schechter’s Lower School, 60 Stein Circle, Newton. Children can enjoy crafts, music, stories and refreshments while their parents engage in informal discussions about the Schechter School. For more information or to RSVP, contact Laura Black at 617-964-7765, ext. 1304.

The wild West comes to Greater Boston in February as the eighth grade class of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston presents its all-Hebrew production of the Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun.” Performances will be held on Sunday, February 8, at 2:00 p.m. and Monday and Tuesday evenings, Feb. 9-10, at 7:00 p.m. at the Sorenson Theatre at Babson College in Wellesley.
Featured in the cast will be Temple Aliyah members Avi Levine, Jeremy Moskowitz, and Joshua Pankin as members of the Wild West Show, Melissa Schoeller as Mrs. Fossee Wilson, Sarah Reid as Mrs. Yellow Foot and Aaron Brown as Gomer, one of the western townfolk. Emily Lipman will be assisting with tech crew.
This is the thirteenth consecutive year that Schechter has presented a Hebrew version of a Broadway musical. The Temple Aliyah community is invited to attend the show. Tickets are $12.00; for more information, call Schechter at 617-928-9100.

(For a comprehensive listing of all of the upcoming Jewish events in the Greater Boston area, check out the calendar page of the shalomboston web site.)